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Researchers with the Open Source Imaging Initiative have built a working MRI scanner for under seventy thousand dollars — less than seven percent of what a standard machine costs. The OSI two ONE is open-source and three-D printed, which means clinics in under-resourced communities could one day access diagnostic technology that's been financially out of reach for decades. That's not a gadget story. That's a public health story.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, Mira Murati has ended two years of near-silence with the debut model from her Thinking Machines Lab, now live on OpenRouter. Reviewers are calling it the best open-source model in the western AI landscape, pointing to strong benchmark performance. The catch, as always, is the price-to-performance calculation, which turns out to be more complicated than the headline suggests.
And finally, a quieter but useful reality check from Engadget — your Apple Watch calorie data is an educated estimate, not a measurement. Accurately tracking energy expenditure requires inputs a wrist-worn sensor simply cannot capture. It's a good reminder that the confidence of a clean digital readout doesn't always reflect the messiness of the underlying science.
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